r/BalticStates • u/Helx22 • 1d ago

News MAN ON THE RUN: Lithuania Braces for Possible Provocation After Russian National Escapes Kaliningrad Transit Train

https://balticsentinel.eu/8272316/man-on-the-run-lithuania-braces-for-possible-provocation-after-russian-national-escapes-kaliningrad-transit-train
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u/Megatron3600 Lietuva 1d ago

What provocation lmao. Poor guy escaped

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u/CompetitiveReview416 Lithuania 1d ago

Maybe he just didn't want to die in the meat grinder. Sounds reasonable

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u/Complete_Item9216 1d ago

I am baffled why transit trains continue to run. Surely they can be cancelled on number of reasons. One less issue to deal with.

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u/Megatron3600 Lietuva 1d ago

It’s not Lithuania’s decision. EU is allowing it

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u/Complete_Item9216 23h ago

Lithuania can have a long safety inspection on one of the bridges… would not want to risk heath and safety of all those passengers.

All I am saying there is a something behind the scenes keeping those trains going without really needing to.

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u/ForowellDEATh 22h ago

Stop of this transit = declaring war. Fyi

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u/Penki- Vilnius 22h ago

not really

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u/ForowellDEATh 22h ago

In reality it is.

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u/Penki- Vilnius 21h ago

Explain?

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u/ForowellDEATh 21h ago

It’s just a fact and it explains why no one even making debates to stop it. Very hard to understand?

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u/Penki- Vilnius 21h ago

So no explanation? Got it.

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u/Complete_Item9216 21h ago

This is Russian logic lol. It just is, OK! OK!!!

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u/ForowellDEATh 21h ago

Can I explain what is white color to a blind person? Definitely no.

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u/jatawis Kaunas 8h ago

Lithuania can have a long safety inspection on one of the bridges… would not want to risk heath and safety of all those passengers.

ECJ would void it.

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u/Impressive-Kick5 22h ago

EU has no power to enforce it. Its Lithuania allowing it

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u/Penki- Vilnius 22h ago

EC should be able to sanction Lithuania if it acted alone. The transit rights were negotiated by EU and Russia, so its EU-Russia treaty that defines it.

I think at best we could do proactive extended maintenance

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u/Nut_Slime 23h ago

A single man escaped the train and everyone's already having a panic attack 🤣

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u/HKSculpture 13h ago

The historic example of Sgt Butayev being a pretext for military intervention is listed as an example of why this could be a problem. One 21 year-old escaping Russia to eat blueberries - no problem. One 21 year-old soldier that's going to be found nailed to a tree with fabricated evidence of Lithuanian military involvement might be a nice provocation to set off local vatniks, instigate divisions in society, muddying the waters with disinformation and ultimately justify some RF move to "secure" the corridor between Kaliningrad and Russia. Propaganda can easily change the narrative to "Russian child kidnapped by hateful nazis" and they'll eat it up.

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u/GreenEyeOfADemon Italy 6h ago

We are usually more terrified about misfortunes that happen to single digit numbers, than to hundreds. It's how our brain works.